Breathwork for Addiction Recovery

Breathwork is a powerful tool that offers profound benefits for those in addiction recovery. Many who try it feel a difference in the way they feel almost immediately. Yoga practitioners have used breathing practices for thousands of years due to the many benefits its practitioners experienced. Modern-day science has begun to realize the real mental and physical advantages that breathwork offers.

Controlled breathing allows a way to consciously control our nervous system and provides an effective addiction therapy tool for dealing with stress, mental health conditions, and addiction.

Unlike many other addiction therapy tools, it’s effects can be felt almost immediately and can offer an escape from negative thoughts and emotions that be used whenever needed.

What is Breathwork Therapy?

Breathwork for addiction utilizes specific breathing exercises that follow a rhythmic breathing pattern for 20 minutes or longer. Breathwork sessions are a guided practice that is combined with a discussion platform to express any feeling that emerged during your practice. People who try breathwork for the first time may experience many new sensations, including a tingling feeling throughout their body and an increased sense of clarity and consciousness of the connection between the mind and body.

It’s common for people to experience and emotional purge that allows pent up emotions to be discharged, offering a cathartic release that can have a profound effect on mental well-being. Practitioners are often left with a sense of calm and inner peace.

How Breathwork Helps Addiction Recovery?

Breathwork offers many benefits that make it an excellent tool for those recovering from addiction. Studies on breathwork practices have shown it provides a wide range of mental health benefits, including the ability to lower stress levels, decrease anxiety, help alleviate symptoms of depression, lower blood pressure, and help with insomnia.

The following are some of the benefits it can provide to those struggling with addiction:

It Helps you Feel Better

The specific breathing techniques used in our breathwork for addiction program create feelings of euphoria that create an immediate mood lift during and after the practice. The breathwork for addiction technique floods the body with oxygen, reduces CO2 levels, and changes the body’s PH. These physiological changes produce a sort of natural “high” that leaves the practitioner in a state of deep relaxation with a feeling of mental and physical well-being. Studies have shown that breathing practices provide a drug-free alternative for lowering depression.

Balance the Nervous System

Breathwork has been shown to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, the part of our nervous system associated with “rest and digest feelings of calm and relaxation. Studies show that breathing practices lower cortisol levels, a stress hormone that is released when our mind signals the body of duress. Developing a breathwork practice offers an effective tool for lower stress levels when needed. Also, it serves to increase or stress tolerance making us more resilient and better able to handle the challenges faced in recovery.

It Helps Release Negative Emotions

Breathwork sessions offer deep healing by allowing for the release of deep seeded emotional conflict. The effects of breathwork can be felt the first time it is practiced and can often help with the release of pent up emotions that have been stored for years. Breathwork provides an excellent tool for helping to heal the effects of trauma and offers an emotional purification process that anyone can benefit from, especially those recovering from addiction.

Benefits of Breathwork Therapy

Breathwork offers a way to release stress, tension, and negative emotions. Its effects can be felt immediately and can allow you to enter a deep sense of calm and comfort. Breathwork provides an incredible tool from purging the mind and body of toxic energy and negative emotions. Many practitioners feel a sense of relief after their first sessions.

• Offers a release of pent up emotions
• Help to lower stress, anxiety, and depression
• Balances the nervous system
• Can be used as self-practice whenever needed
• Help manage chronic pain
• Can help improve sleep
• Improves immunity
• Helps develop self-awareness

Breathwork is a powerful tool that offers many benefits to those recovering from addiction. Learning this healing practice can provide you with a valuable tool that can help maintain long-term recovery. 

Breathwork For Addiction Treatment

NuView Treatment Center offers group breathwork sessions as part of our outpatient treatment program. NuView combines the best of traditional psychotherapy techniques with complementary and alternative practices to provide comprehensive addiction treatment for the mind, body, and soul.

Contact us to find out more about breathwork as part of our outpatient addiction treatment program.